Merrill Matthews Jr., Ph.D., is director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, a Washington D.C.-based research and advocacy organization promoting free market health insurance reforms, and a visiting scholar with the Dallas-based Institute for Policy Innovation. Matthews speaks out against Universal Health Care.
U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, speaks about the Health Care Freedom Plan, a plan that reduces the government's grip on the health care market and provides every American with the ability to access and own a health plan that best meets his or her needs.
Greg Scandlen, Director of the Center for Consumer Driven Health Care, speaks about Universal Health Care in response to ABC's "Prescription for America" special.
Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, speaks out against Universal Healthcare.
Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin Congressional Budget Office's Former Director
ABC's Diane Sawyer introducing a Republican critic of the Obama health care plan needlessly noted that two more prominent GOP leaders could not make it on air that day.
An Iranian student interviewed on CNN’s American Morning on Monday (June 22) pleaded the world and Barack Obama to become more active in assisting the protests against the Islamic regime in Tehran: “International community....especially, I ask President Barack Obama directly...this government is a huge threat to global peace....We need your help international community. Don’t leave us alone.”
On his June 17 program, MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews described Howard Dean as "the man who really laid out the path for Barack Obama" and referred to Dean as "the St. John the Baptist" to Obama.
On FNC's Special Report on June 17, MRC President Brent Bozell gave his reaction to ABC News's planned special at the White House on health care. Bozell points out, "Just try to imagine a world wherein ABC would give George W. Bush a two hour opportunity to have a quote-unquote discussion with the American people on the war on terror."
On FNC's "America's Newsroom" MRC's Seton Motley discussed ABC's rejection for the GOP's request for airtime on ABC's health care special to be held from inside the White House. Motley noted that ABC is giving Obama "all day home field advantage" on promoting his universal health care plan with no other coverage of the other side of the issue.